Tax cuts for big banks have deprived the UK government of £6bn in revenues, according to campaigners, who are calling on the chancellor, John Healey, to increase taxes and force lenders to pay their “fair share” in the budget. Calculations by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), which represents unions with more than 5.3 million members across England and Wales, shows ...

More than 1,000 dockless bikes have been seized from Westminster’s streets since May as part of a council crackdown on obstructive parking. Westminster City Council said it had also issued more than 5,300 fixed penalty notices to bike operators during the same period, amounting to more than £53,000. Caroline Sargent, the council’s deputy leader and cabinet member for enforcement, said: ...

The sixth edition of the weekly ‘Super Sale Car Bazar’ began at the International Convention City Bashundhara (ICCB) in Dhaka on Friday, offering buyers and sellers a platform to trade a range of vehicles. The marketplace opened at 11:00am and will remain open until 8:00pm. Launched on 4 September, the event has received encouraging responses from buyers and sellers over ...

BNP acting secretary general and Prime Minister’s Political Adviser Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed on Friday described threats to halt remittances sent by expatriate Bangladeshis as extremely anti-national and inhumane. He said such a move would threaten the livelihoods of millions of families and harm the national economy. He made the remarks while addressing a prize-giving ceremony, discussion and cultural programme ...

Abdul Khaleque, secretary of the Secondary and Higher Education Division, has said UNESCO must adopt appropriate strategies to keep pace with AI-driven systems and consider initiating a process to regulate the use of artificial intelligence within its areas of operation for the sake of future generations. He made the remarks while delivering Bangladesh’s national statement at the 225th session of ...

Observing that most dengue deaths are linked to delayed diagnosis and hospitalisation, health experts have called for early testing, timely treatment and greater public awareness of the disease’s warning signs to help reduce fatalities from the mosquito-borne illness. They said many dengue patients who die in hospitals arrive at a late stage, leaving doctors with little time to provide effective ...

Imagine a leaf suddenly falling on your head from an Oak tree, and you’re so alert it feels like a bomb has dropped! Well, there is a proper term to describe your hyper-alert self, which is ‘hypervigilance. It is a psychological condition in which the brain is in constant fight-or-flight mode, creating waves of turmoil inside your brain. Hypervigilance is ...

Staff Reporter, Sylhet : Commerce, Industries and Textiles and Jute Minister Khandakar Abdul Muktadir on Friday stressed the need to preserve Bangladesh’s long-standing tradition of religious harmony, mutual respect and peaceful coexistence among people of all faiths. “Religious harmony is a unique asset of Bangladesh. Even many large democratic countries around the world cannot demonstrate the kind of religious harmony ...

Osmaninagar Correspondent : Two passengers were killed and five others injured in a collision involving an ambulance, a microbus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Osmaninagar upazila of Sylhet on Friday. The accident occurred in the Chanpur area of Tajpur Union under the upazila. According to eyewitnesses, the ambulance, heading towards Sylhet, collided with a Hiace microbus and ...

Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho slammed criticism of star striker Kylian Mbappe, on Friday labelling the attacks as “ridiculous”. The French captain has come under fire for spending his time recovering from a left knee injury — which he suffered playing in a Nations League match against Turkey — in France and Switzerland rather than Madrid. The 27-year-old was also ...